Three figures slowly marched across the white tiles and stood on the shimmering and spotless tiles beneath the throne.

Triendar bowed and walked slowly across the shimmering tiles.

ATMOSPHERE - Archways, pillars, shimmering blue tiles and plush perches create a decadent, Ottomanesque, playful theater for Mediterranean cuisine.

She opened the security door into a close with shimmering green tiles up to shoulder height topped off with a border of pseudoMackintosh roses.

Triendar bowed again, and a strand of wispy white hair drifted across his forehead, hair almost as white as the shimmering tiles on which he stood.

When you visit blinkx.com, the first thing you see is the "video wall," 25 small, shimmering tiles, each displaying a popular video clip, indexed that hour.

Those waiting cross the shimmering and spotless white tiles, bow below the dais, and offer their felicitations.

Beyond the hedge maze was a circular marble pool, its edges outlined in shimmering red tile.

In an homage to Gaudi, the great turn-of-the-century Catalan architect, Pepper covered the earth mound with shimmering ceramic tile, the material Gaudi used in his famous Park Guell.

Outside the gallery is Thomas Heatherwick's famous Blue Carpet (2002) with shimmering blue tiles made from crushed glass and resin.